Change of management at abberior instruments
abberior instruments GmbH CEO Dr. Gerald Donnert will hand over his position to Dr. Thorsten Staudt on January 1, 2025.
“I am delighted to be returning to microscopy, to further develop abberior instruments as a team and to unlock its enormous potential,” says Staudt, who currently heads the global Center of Excellence Metal Systems Applications at BASF. He will be relocating to Göttingen for his new role.
“Thorsten Staudt did his PhD on STED microscopy and has all the prerequisites to continue Gerald Donnert’s very successful work at abberior instruments,” emphasizes Nobel laureate Prof. Dr. Stefan Hell, from whose Department at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen abberior instruments and its sister company abberior were spun off.
After completing his PhD in Hell’s group in Heidelberg, chemist Staudt moved to BASF in 2010, where he held various positions in R&D, Business Development, Sales and Marketing, Business Management, and Operations.
Donnert co-founded the companies abberior instruments and abberior with colleagues 13 and 14 years ago, respectively, and has managed their businesses jointly ever since. As from 2025, he will focus on the management of abberior GmbH and establish a new line of business, but he will remain with abberior instruments as a consultant and shareholder.
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